“We cannot always cry at the right time
and who is to say which time is right?”
― The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle
and who is to say which time is right?”
― The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle
“Then wake up my sweet, wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal.”
― Victor's Blessing
― Victor's Blessing
“There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.”
― Bring Up the Bodies
― Bring Up the Bodies
“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“I’ll tell the Chief and he’ll squash you like the little flea-ridden castrated cock you are.”
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
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